Graeme McRae

Current

• Project Manager at Zurich Financial Services (Zurich Farmers Insurance Services US)
• Project Manager at Farmers Insurance Group

Past

• Director, Technical Services at Paramount Pictures
• Manager, Storage Administration at Paramount Pictures
• Senior Systems Programmer at Paramount Pictures

• Senior Systems Programmer at Credit Suisse First Boston
• Systems Programmer at American Hoechst Corporation

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Education

• Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Graeme McRae’s Summary

Information Technology Management Professional with extensive experience in a wide variety of environments including IBM mainframe and large UNIX systems (AIX and HP-UX). Keen, customer-focused problem-solver with hands-on systems programming and operations skills that ensure cost effective solutions. Adept at project management using various tools to ensure responsibility hand-offs go smoothly, and the project is delivered on time and on budget. Enthusiastic learner and teacher who enjoys developing and motivating others. Excels at designing innovative methods and processes for mainframe and midrange systems so they can be executed reliably and quickly for repeatable success.

Graeme McRae’s Specialties:

IBM mainframe systems programming, outsourcing, disaster recovery, storage administration, project management, budget management, personnel management

Graeme McRae’s Experience

• Project Manager

  Zurich Financial Services (Zurich Farmers Insurance Services US)

  (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2006 — Present (3 years)

• Project Manager

  Farmers Insurance Group

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ZFSVY; Insurance industry)

  August 2006 — Present (3 years)

  Infrastructure Project Manager, responsible for Develop project charter, Develop prelim. proj scope stmt, Develop proj mgmt plan, Direct & manage proj execution, Monitor & control proj work, Integrated change ctrl, Close proj, Scope planning, Scope def., Create WBS, Scope verification, Scope control, Activity def., Activity sequencing, Activity resource est., Activity duration estimating, Schedule development, Schedule ctrl, Cost estimating, Cost budgeting, Cost ctrl, Quality planning, Perform quality assurance, Perform quality ctrl, Human resource planning, Acquire proj team, Develop proj team, Manage proj team, Communication planning, Information distribution, Performance reporting, Manage stakeholders, Risk management planning, Risk identification, Qualitative risk analysis, Quantitative risk analysis, Risk response planning, Risk monitoring & ctrl, Plan purchases & acquisitions, Plan contracting, Request seller responses, Select sellers, Contract administration, & Contract closure.

• Director, Technical Services

  Paramount Pictures

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; via.b; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 1994 — April 2006 (11 years 8 months)

  Led a team of systems engineers who performed hardware and system software upgrades and maintenance on the IBM mainframe, AS/400, HP-UX, and AIX platforms, and associated tape and disk storage systems. Managed multi-million dollar overhead and capital budgets, negotiating hardware, software, and services contracts. Provided leadership and mentoring, evaluated employees and made personnel decisions.

• Manager, Storage Administration

  Paramount Pictures

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; via.b; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1994 — September 1994 (9 months)

  Managed disk and tape storage for the mainframe. Converted from traditional to System Managed Storage (SMS).

• Senior Systems Programmer

  Paramount Pictures

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; via.b; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 1991 — February 1994 (3 years 1 month)

  Installed and customized MVS and all program products. Planned and led Data Center Move, from New York to Los Angeles.

• Senior Systems Programmer

  Credit Suisse First Boston

  (Public Company; CSR; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 1988 — February 1991 (2 years 8 months)

  Installed and maintained the MVS operating system and other system software on five IBM mainframes. Requires advanced knowledge of MVS internals, dumps and logs as well as network, channel and “Hyperchannel” internals, and assembly language coding.

• Systems Programmer

  American Hoechst Corporation

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 1984 — July 1988 (4 years 2 months)

  Installed, upgraded, and maintained operating system software. At various times, responsible for one or more of the following systems: IMS/DC, VTAM, NCP, MVS, JES2 V1.3.4, DFP V1.2, and ISPF V2. Designed, coded, and implemented DADSM exits; reverse-engineered IMS/DC screen maps to recover lost source code.

Graeme McRae’s Education

• Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick

  1975 — 1981

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